Rahat Talreja
Vice President – CSS India
This article is not about business or economics in its conventional way. But the world is run by people and so whatever is going on within people affects commerce and trade as well. So this is my license to write this article in a business journal.
What is it that you always seek?
Peace or Stress ?
Sorrow or Happiness ?
Poverty or Wealth ?
Love or Hatred ?
And so on ….
Ask yourself.
The conventional and obvious answer is the “ better “ looking feeling wether Peace, Happiness, Wealth, Love etc Don’t you remember the several messages you receive and forward on occasions like Diwali, Eid, Christmas seeking the above for you?
But now ask : Which is more powerful and Think. ( this is keeping your mind silent and tongue silent and letting your mind and energy go on a deeper plain ) the definition was important because we are talking more and thinking less these days
The more powerful thing is the one which is omnipresent and the one we are seeking is eluding us always or not visible.
So Stress is present always, peace is to be found
Sorrow is a larger reality, happiness is a wish
Let me give you an example.
All religions, leaders of peace, humanity etc always talked and worked for “ Equality “
Many centuries have passed. Is the world equal ? Need I answer this no brainer? Can I actually say that inequality was always there and is there and will always be there. What happens is that we make the omnipresent reality a bad word and then seek the opposite of it always
But lets be humble to accept that “If the maker of the universe thought that inequality was not required, it would not be there. Simple. Period.”
So if equality is not there – it had to be like this. The issue is our doubt and distrust and non acceptance of the realities around us.
People may argue that what ought to be there, wouldn’t always be.
But just do simple observation. No intelligence required.
The maker didn’t want a cat giving birth to a human, does it ? it doesn’t
The maker didn’t want the ocean to cross its line at the beach, does it ? it doesn’t
But unequal – it wanted . And it did. We cant decipher why so we keep seeking the other end of it. And fail. Till date.
No eye image, no thumb impression, no toe print in the world is equal. So what else should be?
So i come back to the main point of this article. By illustrating the example on equality, I want to simply say that what is present is actually the powerful reality and not the opposite of it. The issue is we make a bad word out of it and keep trying to rotate it. We are actually masters at making bad words out of situations. The two eyed approach. The dual aspect approach.
Without realising that:
Only after stress, deep stress, the peace is recognised – the absence of stress.
Only after sorrow, deep sorrow, happiness is recognised, the absence of sorrow.
The stress is the womb on which peace grows
The sorrow is the womb on which happiness grows
So now I request you all to stop making bad words out of realities.
And accept reality.
And then see what happens.
Once you are ok with stress, the value of seeking peace will go away.
Once you are ok with inequality, the value of seeking equality will go away.
And as every aspect of reality is accepted in its own form, the effort, pain and journey to make the opposite happen will end. Because your starting and ending point will be the same. You will be the 1st and last in the race because the race will never happen. Because now, you have stopped judging everything in dual aspect.
I remember a hilarious situation. Just before a company’s results are out, there are analyst expectations and then if the results are lower than that, people react negatively to it.
But the result is the reality, the expectation is above it. Funny isn’t it.
Another example is in eating. Rich food and Poor food. You eat as you can afford. But what does it result into? If you eat the food of the poor you never get the diseases of the rich. But one strives to get from poverty to richness and misses the mirage.
The article needs to end like this. Understand carefully.
In continuation to my own point that the actual reality is omnipresent and we make a bad word of it and seek the other opposite end. ( Inequality the reality and equality the opposite)
But the reality is also that we do it. This making a bad word if it and seeking the other end. So if it is like this, so be it. My article and its points stand validated only if they stand cancelled. I hope the confusion has bought you clarity on a deeper point.
If not, turn the page and ignore this article, its as simple.
Cheers